Person:John Welton (4)

That John Welton may have been of Welsh extraction is indicated in J. H. Beers' Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven County, Connecticut, vol 2, p. 804, where his birthplace is given as Wales, and p. 904 where England or Wales is suggested as the place he came from. This theory is also advanced by the compilers of the Upson Family in America, 1940, p. 2.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Pape, William Jamieson. History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut. (Chicago and New York: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1918)
   3:138.

   The founder of the Welton family in New England was John Welton, who came from England or Wales about 1667 and located with his family at Farmington, Connecticut. In 1679 he came to New Haven county, settling at Waterbury, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring June 18, 1726.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} John Welton, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:482.

   "Welton, John, Farmington, bef. 1673, by w. Mary, had John, Stephen, Mary, and perhaps more, b. there, but rem. to Waterbury, and there had Richard, b. 1680; Hannah, 1683; Thomas, 1685; George, 1687; and Else, 1690. His w. d. 1716; and he d. 1726."

3. ↑ Waterbury Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   335.

   "Welton, … John, [Sr.], d June 18, 1726 [1:119]"

4. ↑ John Welton, Sr, in Find A Grave.
5. ↑ Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions 224-4 Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, in Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
   349.

   "Welton, John, 1st, born ____, died 1726"